He Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukelehe published in X that his country has the “Best system” of world prisonsin which more than 48 thousand prisoners They work to reduce their convictions.
“The best prison system in the world“, public Bukele In response to a message from the chief of prisons, Osiris Luna, sanctioned by USA for supposedly organizing Meetings with gang leaders With the government.
The video indicates that They are more than 48 thousand deprived of liberty“that They are not gang members“, Those who They work in exchange for reducing their sorrowsalthough local media reports indicate that arrested within the framework of an exception regimein force since March 2022, they would be working despite not having convictions.
In addition, the video shows that more than 6 thousand inmates Elaborate 150 thousand pairs of shoes monthlyas apart from Zero leisure programthat in other administrations it was called I changeand 15 thousand prisoners They work with the state company Constructora El Salvador.
The audiovisual material was initially published by Moonwho in his X account said that “we will continue working on solve the problems They seemed impossible; Although some, inside and outside of our countryintend stop“
Luna has been seen between controversial In recent days after a publication of The New York Times in which he indicates that in 2020 he would have offered United States Government testify about the talks between him Bukele government and the gangs in exchange for asylum.
The Salvadoran medium The newspaper today recorded in its web version that the medium report United Statesentitled: ‘Trump promised to dismantle the MS-13. His agreement with Bukele threatens that effort ‘, indicates that Moon I would have sought negotiate An asylum of “luxury“
A cable of State Department of September 10, 2020 “he said that Luna showed the officials of the embassy A capture of screen of a security camera of several men Masked entering one of the prisons that supervised, ”says the text.
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– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) July 4, 2025
He Salvadoran government has not ruled by this publication in USA.
Luna was one of those indicated in 2021 by the department of US State In its list of 55 assumptions “corrupt and anti -democratic actors”Central American.
He was also sanctioned Under the Magnitsky Law Together with another official with whom they allegedly “directed, facilitated and organized a series of secret meetings in which leaders of imprisoned gangs“And that” they were part of the efforts of the El Salvador Government for negotiating a secret truce with the leaders of the bands. ”